09/01/2015

The Turkish Red Crescent has delivered 840 million Turkish lira worth of aid in Syria since 2012, says agency's deputy GM. World Bulletin / News Desk   The Turkish Red Crescent has supplied humanitarian aid in Syria worth a total of …

John McCain says the US needs to develop a strategy in Syria and it needs to include 'boots on the ground.' World Bulletin / News Desk    A prominent U.S. Senator on Thursday called for the Obama administration to deploy ground forces…

SOHR had been informed that Islamic Police of Islamic State had executed 5 men in the countryside of Homs, where they shot 3 of them for being “spies” and beheaded another for being “ a lawyer in Terrorism Court” while the last one, who was…

  Aleppo Province: The helicopters dropped 2 barrel bombs on areas in the neighborhood of B’edin in the east of Aleppo.   The rebel and Islamic battalions targeted by shells the regime positions in the Militery Academy in al-…

  Homs Province: The regime forces bombarded places in Hosh Hajjo area in the countryside of Talbise City and places on Rajm al- Qser in the eastern countryside of Homs.   A man from the neighborhood of al- Waer in the city of Homs…

  Rif Dimashq Province: Several  mortar and tank shells launched by the regime forces landed on the city of Doma in the Eastern Ghota leading to injure people and kill a child. The regime forces also shelled areas in the city of al-…

Islamic State Organization in the province of al- Forat issued a statement; SOHR received a copy of it, reported “pursuant to Emir al- Muemenin instructions Allah bless and guide him to right, we open the repentance door for those who fight…

Lauren Williams| The Daily Star   The war in Syria has not only tested Turkey’s economic and institutional ability to absorb 1.1 million refugees, but has also deepened latent tensions between secularists, leftists, Kurds and…

The ranks of terror groups in Syria and Iraq continue to swell with foreign fighters, according to John Carlin, the assistant attorney general for national security. "There are over 18,000 foreign fighters in the Syria-Iraq region,"…

Michael Young| The Daily Star   Earlier this week, Khaled Khoja, the new head of the Syria opposition in exile, rejected a Russian proposal to attend talks in Moscow to end the Syrian conflict. Khoja was right to doubt Russian…